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Nervous System
Muscular System
Skeletal System
Nutrition
Overall Physical Health
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This is the name given to the cells that make up our nervous system.
What is a Neuron
100
The quadricep can be described as this type of muscle.
What is a a skeletal muscle
100
How many bones are in the adult human body?
What is 206
100
The name of the amount of energy found within food?
What is a calorie
100
The transverse plane separates the human body into what?
What is top and bottom halves
200
Connecting to this part of the body, our nerves allow our body to react and move in different scenarios.
What is the spinal cord.
200
In order to contract and relax, our muscles must slide. Which two chemicals allow our muscles to slide?
What are myosin and actin
200
How many bones, roughly, compose our skull (not face?)
What is 3
200
The term that describes a person's physical ability of using the energy provided to them through their food and eating?
What is metabolism
200
What three things do our bones provide for our bodies?
What is 1. structure 2. connection points that allow our muscles to move 3. produce red blood cells in the marrow
300
The name of the "messages" sent from the brain, to the rest of the body, to recognize movement or push for action
What is an impulse
300
Give an example of a muscle that is superficial to the cardiac muscles of the heart?
What is bicep, tricep, abdominals, pectoralis
300
What attaches bone to bone?
What is a ligament
300
In order to gain weight, your caloric input must ________ your caloric output.
What is be more.
300
Shortening a muscle is also known as:
What is contracting
400
To lose neural movement of the lower half of the body is described as a person becoming this.
What is a paraplegic?
400
Why would quadriceps, biceps, triceps, gluteus maximus be described as skeletal muscles?
What is because they all attach to bones in some way?
400
Why do we have less bones as an adult, than we do as a baby?
What is because our bones fuse together as we get older, intake more calcium, as our body develops more?
400
The body's primary source of energy is considered to be this food group. Be specific on what type you should eat.
What is Carbohydrate (complex carbohydrate)
400
Lengthening a muscle is also known as
What is relaxing
500
This chemical of the brain triggers to body to feel happy, often resulting in the muscles moving joyfully and happily.
What is seratonin.
500
What attaches a muscle to a bone?
What is a tendon
500
Name 5 bones of the body.
What is tibia, fibula, femur, coccyx, sternum, clavicle, humerus, ulna
500
Fat is not necessarily a bad thing. What name is given to the type of fat that is considered actually good for the body?
What is unsaturated fats.
500
A muscle cell is also given this name, and has what kind of shape?
What is a muscle fiber, long and tubular.